See, this is why I like it as a thought experiment. I hadn't considered the potential for fertile territory / preexisting demographic trends to contribute to s

See, this is why I like it as a thought experiment. I hadn't considered the potential for fertile territory / preexisting demographic trends to contribute to snowballing - you make a really good point there. I sorta feel like that view reflects an actual reality, too, rather than an academic musing. Fingers crossed for the future. As for [3] - and fie on me for being a little kneejerk about this - but if the problem at hand is the amount of outsize electoral influence we all have to put up with from folks in sparsely populated places like wyoming, vermont, etc., then they'll just have to put up with the rest of us moving in and planting flags... ...in that totally hypothetical universe that will never happen... ...cause you're right, I am not moving to Wyoming.